13 August 2017

23 May 2017

Why use analog films in digital era…well the movies didn’t kill the theaters, photography didn’t kill painting, keyboards didn’t kill handwriting (yet…). In a similar fashion, why drive a vintage car or fly a biplane. Everything vintage is on the rise. Just I never stopped shooting in films. I even bought 2 more film cameras in digital times…

29 July 2016

Victor Lenoir’s tomb. A French doctor who was a pioneer in women’s fertility. Notice the erection on the statue! Would see that in America I guess. The legend says his erection will help fertility so women come and rub it, some even sit on it.

13 August 2015

National Day in France, there was a military show at the “Invalides”. Kids were having a blast, they were allowed to climb in various vehicles, talk to armed forces professionals.

Well not only kids had a good time… This man is a “Spahi”, from a unit fitted for the desert, hence the sable cape. It refers to the times when the vehicles were horses or camels. The cape would hide a lot then.

A “Chasseur Alpin”, an alpine unit.

“Les Invalides” built by Napoleon to welcome the wounded soldiers.

A pilot must be multi tasked. Talking to a crowd is not my favorite part of the job.

25 March 2015

The caption says “4 wheels and 1 umbrella”, that was the logo when the car was presented to the public 60 or so years ago. That summed up the car quite well. I used to have a 2CV like this model, a red one. I miss it, especially in Arusha where I live. It would be perfect on the bumpy roads.

30 December 2014

14 December 2014

yeah I know I’m a bit late. I’m an amateur photographer, not a pro, I have no angry boss over my head for a deadline.

Here we are at the Champs Elysées for the last kilometers. The crowd was more interesting than the cyclists, for me that is, keen street photographer.

Here are some samples.

I laughed quite hard at this American dude….

but then 2 Belgian dudes showed up, to my greatest embarrassment… and they were Walloons of course, from my own tribe (the roster is our emblem, what a choice…), sigh.

Add Jean-Claude Van Damme in the picture, a record(one year and half without government which was not a bad thing considering the corrupt bozos we have got now) and so there are days when dating a French girl is a problem.